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01/19/2016, Most, if not all, modern cars these days come with a backup camera, or at least provides an option for customers to add it to their car. Now these cameras don’t exactly offer the best quality, but are decent enough to help you when you were reversing...

01/04/2016, Ford’s SmartDeviceLink (SDL) app platform is an open-source iteration of its AppLink platform, which is one of the most common platforms for connecting mobile devices to cars. It allows developers to interface directly with the car’s displays...

12/23/2015, Right now self-driving cars rely on a variety of sensors like lasers, radars, and cameras in order to ensure that when it drives, it does not run into people or objects. So far so good, at least that’s what the reports have led us to believe. However...

12/14/2015, Today marks the very first time that the initial batch of the new Toyota Prius has rolled off the Japanese automotive giant’s production line in the Land of the Rising Sun. So far, things look rather dapper for Toyota, as their order books are said to...

11/25/2015, Toyota has announced that it’s issuing a recall for 1.6 million cars covering roughly 20 models in Japan in order to check if the cars produced between 2004 and 2008, including the popular Vitz, have faulty Takata airbag parts. Recalled cars will be...

11/08/2015, Takata, a company that supplies airbag systems, was recently fined $70 million by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration because it failed to disclose defects in its airbags. This is a serious matter given that airbags can be the difference...

11/08/2015, Tech companies have played an important role in highlighting the potential of self-driving car technologies. It’s no secret that Google has been working hard to make this a reality, other companies like Tesla and even Apple are making the same...

10/28/2015, Toyota has a vision of a future where it sees humans and artificial intelligence working together “for a better world,” that’s the aim it strives to achieve with the Toyota Heart Project which has created the Kirobo Mini robot....

10/07/2015, Interested in self-driving cars is increasing, not only are tech companies like Google working to make cars that drive by themselves, but now a whole lot of conventional manufacturers have also embraced this vision of the future. Toyota has announced...

09/09/2015, Toyota had confirmed last month that it will unveil the 2016 Toyota Prius this month, it has done precisely that at an event in Las Vegas today. The new Prius comes with a major design change which Toyota refers to as a “striking exterior...

08/19/2015, It’s safe to say that Toyota played a major part in popularizing hybrid cars in the global car market with the Prius, this particular hybrid is one of the most popular cars of its kind available in the market. The Prius has largely remained the same...

07/31/2015, We did hear of Toyota’s HSR before – which is short for “human support robot”, and it will sport a solitary mechanical arm that has the ability to grasp objects of different shapes as well as sizes, and not only that, there is also an...

07/16/2015, When it comes to recording action sequences and sports, the GoPro is more or less the de facto choice amongst filmmakers. This is largely thanks to the camera being small and light enough, sturdy enough, and its accessories such as camera mounts and...

05/21/2015, It used to be back in the day that your car’s window would get smashed and your radio unit would be ripped out and resold on the black market, or maybe your tyres would be stolen and resold as well. However it seems that thieves these days are starting...